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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1963
Page
1
A team of medical detectives investigates a 1962 Atlanta outbreak where 16 white babies were born with spinal defect meningomyelocele between Aug 6 and Oct 20. Fourteen died as researchers seek a common cause amid mixed diets, viruses, and drug histories. Nonwhite births stayed at baseline. Findings published in JAMA solicit new leads.
London AP says Britain's Labour leaders will press security questions about John Profumo and Christine Keeler to topple Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. They aim for an adjournment debate June 17 to mobilize Conservative dissent and mirror 1940 tactics that toppled Neville Chamberlain.
The Defense Ministry charged that three Egyptian aircraft attacked Najran and Khams near the Saudi border. A communique said two MIG jets and an Ilyushin bomber struck targets and casualties and damage occurred. Our antiaircraft guns fired and drove the planes off.
Washington report says Minnesota's congressional delegation believes new wheat legislation will be enacted to apply to the 1964 crop. The forecast reflects ongoing national policy shifts affecting farmers and grain markets.
Ten years after Michigan's worst tornado in Flint, 116 were killed and 867 injured. The June 8 1953 disaster cut a 36 mile path through Genesee and Lapeer counties, leveled 340 homes and 27 businesses, with $19 million in damage and a Beecher School blast of destruction nearby.
Barricades ring the University of Alabama as segregationists led by Eugene Connor call for a massive boycott of white merchants who support desegregation. Gov. Wallace plans a statewide broadcast while federal orders restrict interference as two Negro students are due to enroll.
Actress Zasu Pitts, famed for a comic look of dismay, dies of cancer at 63 in Los Angeles after hospital admission. Survived by husband John E. Woodall, daughter Ann Reynolds, and adopted son Donald Gallery. Funeral arrangements not announced.
Chicago Postmaster Harry Semrow and Roy Pawley of Lincoln Park Zoo handle a crate containing snakes found in a dead letter box with no address. The box held a grass snake, a black snake, a black racer, a milk snake, and two sleepy salamanders before being sent to the zoo with post office approval.
President Kennedy ends three state tour with military shows in Colorado New Mexico and Texas and Pacific Fleet visit. He courts California voters by lining up Gov Edmund G Brown for a West tour and attends events with Democratic women and contributors. Kennedy also visits a high school prom in Burbank and jokes with Jack Benny.
In Los Angeles about 1300 civic leaders funded a color television stereo set for Richard Nixon at a $6 per plate farewell luncheon for him and Pat Nixon who have moved to New York. The emcee teased the guest of honor as Nixon said his heart will always be in California.
Friday afternoon marked the last rush for doors as report cards issued and vacation started in Austin Public Schools. Teachers emptied desks, checked windows, and closed rooms while halls and lockers were cleaned and scraps disposed near wastebaskets. Parochial schools also began vacation with bells set for Sept. 3.
Carlisle Donovan presented a revised plan to build a 26 unit apartment structure at 204 206 and 208 4th St SW in Kenwood. The project faces a three story limit on commercial property and was referred to the City Planning Commission for review.
The University of Minnesota regents will hold their first meeting in Austin on July 11 and 12 led by President O Meredith Wilson and officers including Malcolm W Willey L R Lunden and Stanley J Wenberg. They will dine with Geo A Hormel & Co and tour the Hormel Institute after a lunch during the event.
A Freeborn County Grand Jury in Albert Lea will hear four more witnesses in the shooting knife slaying of Rev. B. E. Nyjordet, a Silver Lake pastor found dead May 24. Clerk Robert Chapman faces murder charges. the panel may indict him and dismiss the prior complaint.
Dr Stephen Ward 43 an osteopath was seized by Scotland Yard at North Watford and held at Marylebone Lane police station. A Yard spokesman declined to specify charges but indicated formal charges likely later. Ward had testified about Profumo and Christine Keeler meeting in 1961 at Viscount Astor’s Maidenhead estate.
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